Authorizing Early Modern European Women - From Biography to Biofiction (Hardcover)

The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Release date:	December 2021
Editors:	James Fitzmaurice • Naomi Miller • Sara Jayne Steen
Contributors:	Linda Phyllis Austern • Hailey Bachrach • Emilie L Bergmann • Sheila T. Cavanagh • Julia Dabbs • Susan Frye • Sarah Gristwood
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-9463727143
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	9463727140
Barcode:	9789463727143

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